Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 -1
Contract jobs citing Finance 8,249 5,826 7,198
As % of all contract jobs in England 18.99% 23.26% 19.27%
As % of the General category 34.62% 36.19% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,265 3,893 5,016
10th Percentile £356 £350 £363
25th Percentile £448 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% -1.67%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £725
90th Percentile £800 £825 £838
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 106 243
10th Percentile £15.75 £17.80 £12.81
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.33 £15.17
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +43.75% -3.41%
75th Percentile £54.23 £65.19 £38.12
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.95 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.51 £28.00
% change year-on-year -4.14% +30.39% -6.67%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 23,825 16,097 21,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 54.84% 64.27% 57.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,506 10,353 13,616
10th Percentile £313 £281 £288
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £520 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -2.80% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,685 786 1,825
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.25 £12.88
25th Percentile £18.75 £16.73 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £28.17 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +15.39% -12.30% +14.41%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £27.76 £31.13
% change year-on-year +15.27% -10.81% +3.75%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London 0 4,942 £575 -4.17% 1,340
North of England +2 1,286 £500 +7.53% 572
South East -1 692 £500 -4.76% 831
North West +4 684 £466 +3.44% 298
Midlands 0 649 £500 +11.11% 370
Yorkshire 0 556 £525 +10.24% 205
West Midlands +1 475 £500 +1.63% 213
South West -3 379 £525 - 235
East of England +3 197 £516 -10.22% 190
East Midlands -1 167 £470 +12.57% 156
North East -20 47 £500 +13.96% 81
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 293 (3.55%) Confluence
2 205 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 63 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 47 (0.57%) Apache
6 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Exchange
7 27 (0.33%) SAS
8 26 (0.32%) CMS
9 22 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
10 15 (0.18%) CICS
11 12 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 12 (0.15%) IIS
12 11 (0.13%) Appian
12 11 (0.13%) Camunda
12 11 (0.13%) Ethereum
12 11 (0.13%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.073%) Hyperledger
13 6 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 5 (0.061%) HCL Notes
14 5 (0.061%) WebLogic
Applications
1 457 (5.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
3 157 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 148 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
5 101 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 56 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 5 (0.061%) Sketch
9 4 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.048%) Oracle Smart View
9 4 (0.048%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.048%) Trello
10 3 (0.036%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.036%) Notion
11 2 (0.024%) Adobe Premiere
11 2 (0.024%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.024%) Final Cut Pro
11 2 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.012%) MicroStation
12 1 (0.012%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 302 (3.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 112 (1.36%) NetSuite
3 95 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
4 80 (0.97%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 80 (0.97%) Oracle Receivables
5 70 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
6 42 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
7 40 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
7 40 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
8 37 (0.45%) Aladdin
9 35 (0.42%) SAP FI
10 34 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
11 29 (0.35%) SAP CO
12 27 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
13 26 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
14 25 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
15 23 (0.28%) SAP BRIM
16 22 (0.27%) SAP ERP
17 21 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
17 21 (0.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1,327 (16.09%) Azure
2 956 (11.59%) AWS
3 570 (6.91%) Power Platform
4 418 (5.07%) GCP
5 287 (3.48%) SaaS
6 281 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
7 259 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
8 212 (2.57%) GitHub
9 185 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
10 164 (1.99%) Snowflake
11 162 (1.96%) Entra ID
12 137 (1.66%) Serverless
13 108 (1.31%) Amazon S3
14 100 (1.21%) Power Automate
15 98 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
16 97 (1.18%) OCI
17 86 (1.04%) dbt
18 85 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
19 79 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
19 79 (0.96%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 149 (1.81%) Firewall
2 126 (1.53%) Network Security
3 69 (0.84%) DNS
4 68 (0.82%) VPN
5 57 (0.69%) TCP/IP
5 57 (0.69%) WAN
6 39 (0.47%) BGP
7 32 (0.39%) HTTP
7 32 (0.39%) LAN
8 31 (0.38%) SSL
9 29 (0.35%) DHCP
10 27 (0.33%) OSPF
11 25 (0.30%) Multicast
12 23 (0.28%) MPLS
12 23 (0.28%) SD-WAN
13 21 (0.25%) Cisco ASA
14 19 (0.23%) Internet
14 19 (0.23%) VSAN
15 17 (0.21%) VLAN
16 16 (0.19%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 492 (5.96%) Power BI
2 236 (2.86%) SQL Server
3 219 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
4 162 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 160 (1.94%) Metadata
6 146 (1.77%) Relational Database
7 126 (1.53%) Tableau
8 122 (1.48%) Data Lake
9 87 (1.05%) NoSQL
10 72 (0.87%) Oracle Reports
11 68 (0.82%) Big Data
12 62 (0.75%) Oracle Database
13 58 (0.70%) BigQuery
14 49 (0.59%) MongoDB
15 47 (0.57%) Power Query
16 45 (0.55%) Delta Lake
17 43 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
18 42 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 38 (0.46%) Azure SQL Database
20 37 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 603 (7.31%) JIRA
2 203 (2.46%) Git
3 152 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 90 (1.09%) GitLab
5 55 (0.67%) JUnit
6 46 (0.56%) Cucumber
7 36 (0.44%) Selenium
8 28 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 27 (0.33%) Postman
10 24 (0.29%) MLflow
10 24 (0.29%) Visual Studio
11 23 (0.28%) SonarQube
12 22 (0.27%) ERwin
12 22 (0.27%) REST Assured
13 19 (0.23%) Maven
14 16 (0.19%) TeamCity
15 15 (0.18%) Bitbucket
15 15 (0.18%) Zephyr
16 14 (0.17%) Gradle
16 14 (0.17%) Hudson
General
1 2,410 (29.22%) Social Skills
2 1,561 (18.92%) Banking
3 1,084 (13.14%) Analytical Skills
4 457 (5.54%) Public Sector
5 371 (4.50%) Legal
6 334 (4.05%) Financial Institution
7 324 (3.93%) Investment Banking
8 308 (3.73%) Front Office
9 274 (3.32%) Retail
10 269 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 201 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
12 198 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
13 161 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 146 (1.77%) Local Government
15 136 (1.65%) Manufacturing
16 135 (1.64%) General Ledger
17 128 (1.55%) Billing
18 125 (1.52%) Law
19 120 (1.45%) Marketing
20 119 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1,201 (14.56%) Analyst
2 925 (11.21%) Senior
3 880 (10.67%) Lead
4 827 (10.03%) Developer
5 790 (9.58%) Architect
6 631 (7.65%) Project Manager
7 598 (7.25%) Business Analyst
8 533 (6.46%) Consultant
9 316 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
10 286 (3.47%) Data Engineer
11 210 (2.55%) Senior Manager
12 193 (2.34%) Financial Analyst
13 173 (2.10%) Accountant
13 173 (2.10%) Data Analyst
14 169 (2.05%) Finance Manager
15 167 (2.02%) Java Developer
16 163 (1.98%) Software Engineer
17 158 (1.92%) IT Manager
18 157 (1.90%) Programme Manager
19 156 (1.89%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (3.04%) REST
2 249 (3.02%) .NET
3 245 (2.97%) React
4 235 (2.85%) Kafka
5 191 (2.32%) Oracle Fusion
6 177 (2.15%) Middleware
7 151 (1.83%) Spring
8 147 (1.78%) Spring Boot
9 119 (1.44%) RESTful
10 111 (1.35%) Redux
11 105 (1.27%) PySpark
12 102 (1.24%) Node.js
13 85 (1.03%) AngularJS
14 81 (0.98%) JSON
15 76 (0.92%) OAuth
16 69 (0.84%) XML
17 61 (0.74%) CSS
18 58 (0.70%) Pandas
19 56 (0.68%) OpenID
20 55 (0.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 384 (4.66%) Onboarding
2 355 (4.30%) Product Ownership
3 347 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 224 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
5 204 (2.47%) Management Information System
6 185 (2.24%) Data Structures
7 160 (1.94%) Fixed Income
8 158 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 154 (1.87%) Derivative
10 149 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
11 140 (1.70%) Data Protection Act
12 139 (1.69%) Data Centre
13 120 (1.45%) Equities
14 118 (1.43%) Virtual Team
15 107 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
16 102 (1.24%) AI Agents
17 99 (1.20%) Public Cloud
18 96 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
19 89 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
20 85 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 288 (3.49%) Windows
2 256 (3.10%) Linux
3 134 (1.62%) Unix
4 62 (0.75%) Windows Server
5 37 (0.45%) Solaris
6 36 (0.44%) Windows 10
7 34 (0.41%) Apple iOS
8 31 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (0.34%) Android
9 28 (0.34%) zOS
10 20 (0.24%) Mac OS
11 17 (0.21%) AIX
12 7 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.085%) Ubuntu
13 6 (0.073%) VMS
14 5 (0.061%) HPUX
14 5 (0.061%) SUSE
14 5 (0.061%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.048%) MVS
16 3 (0.036%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,778 (21.55%) Stakeholder Management
2 1,702 (20.63%) Agile
3 1,158 (14.04%) Migration
4 1,076 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
5 961 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 896 (10.86%) DevOps
6 896 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 867 (10.51%) AI
8 864 (10.47%) CI/CD
9 822 (9.96%) ERP
10 820 (9.94%) Analytics
11 746 (9.04%) Decision-Making
12 725 (8.79%) Project Management
13 694 (8.41%) Validation
14 692 (8.39%) Roadmaps
15 685 (8.30%) Data Modelling
16 636 (7.71%) User Acceptance Testing
17 617 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
18 605 (7.33%) Change Management
19 537 (6.51%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1,142 (13.84%) SQL
2 1,016 (12.32%) Python
3 564 (6.84%) Java
4 356 (4.32%) C#
5 242 (2.93%) TypeScript
6 238 (2.89%) JavaScript
7 198 (2.40%) PowerShell
8 77 (0.93%) Bash
9 76 (0.92%) C++
10 72 (0.87%) PL/SQL
11 68 (0.82%) Go
12 67 (0.81%) T-SQL
13 54 (0.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 54 (0.65%) Shell Script
14 45 (0.55%) VBA
15 44 (0.53%) Scala
16 33 (0.40%) Bicep
17 30 (0.36%) Apex Code
18 29 (0.35%) Rust
19 28 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 670 (8.12%) Degree
2 638 (7.73%) Security Cleared
3 457 (5.54%) SC Cleared
4 212 (2.57%) PMP
5 210 (2.55%) ACCA
6 187 (2.27%) CIMA
7 179 (2.17%) PMI Certification
8 161 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
9 142 (1.72%) CISSP
10 129 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
11 88 (1.07%) DV Cleared
12 82 (0.99%) Master's Degree
13 80 (0.97%) CISM
14 77 (0.93%) Azure Certification
15 62 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
16 46 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
17 45 (0.55%) AWS Certification
18 38 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
19 35 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
20 31 (0.38%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 515 (6.24%) Data Quality
2 358 (4.34%) QA
3 309 (3.75%) PMO
4 288 (3.49%) GDPR
5 157 (1.90%) NIST
6 128 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 116 (1.41%) IFRS
8 99 (1.20%) SLA
9 88 (1.07%) GRC
10 87 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 77 (0.93%) Accessibility
12 63 (0.76%) GAAP
13 62 (0.75%) PCI DSS
14 56 (0.68%) ISO 20022
15 37 (0.45%) NCSC
16 36 (0.44%) SEPA
17 35 (0.42%) Solvency II
18 34 (0.41%) PSD2
19 31 (0.38%) IFRS 17
20 27 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 259 (3.14%) Docker
2 173 (2.10%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 28 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
4 28 (0.34%) vSphere
5 21 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 12 (0.15%) RACF
9 11 (0.13%) NFS
10 10 (0.12%) Hyper-V
11 6 (0.073%) GPFS
11 6 (0.073%) KVM
12 5 (0.061%) Microsoft App-V
13 4 (0.048%) Oracle RAC
14 3 (0.036%) GridGain
14 3 (0.036%) SRDF
15 2 (0.024%) ACF2
15 2 (0.024%) Apache ZooKeeper
15 2 (0.024%) IAG
Systems Management
1 369 (4.47%) Kubernetes
2 246 (2.98%) Terraform
3 135 (1.64%) Ansible
4 76 (0.92%) Grafana
5 68 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 62 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 49 (0.59%) SCCM
8 41 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 25 (0.30%) Control-M
10 20 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 18 (0.22%) vRealize
12 16 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 14 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 14 (0.17%) Nessus
14 12 (0.15%) AirWatch
14 12 (0.15%) Argo
14 12 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
15 11 (0.13%) CASB
15 11 (0.13%) Puppet
16 10 (0.12%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 1,066 (12.92%) Microsoft
2 682 (8.27%) Oracle
3 658 (7.98%) SAP
4 299 (3.62%) ServiceNow
5 255 (3.09%) Databricks
6 202 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 182 (2.21%) Google
8 125 (1.52%) Workday
9 112 (1.36%) VMware
10 108 (1.31%) Splunk
11 99 (1.20%) IBM
12 95 (1.15%) Cisco
13 89 (1.08%) CyberArk
14 65 (0.79%) OpenAI
15 60 (0.73%) Citrix
16 54 (0.65%) Sage
17 53 (0.64%) Bloomberg
18 50 (0.61%) Ariba
19 49 (0.59%) Informatica
20 47 (0.57%) Murex